Immunotherapy of Human Cancer

Immunotherapy during the 1970s become a potential weapon against human cancers because of experimental beneficial results in animal models. An attempt has been made to put into clinical perspective the results of a large number of studies that have taken place over the past decade. This text consists of ten chapters broken down into disease categories such as the leukemias, lung cancer, melanoma, and breast cancer, with a final chapter dealing with new agents. Each chapter contains institutional or group clinical trials of various immunotherapy modalities. The various agents used include BCG vaccine, levamisole, interferon,Corynebacterium parvum, and irradiated malignant cells. This book is not intended as a review of clinical immunotherapy for the uninitiated, but rather presents results or representative studies in different cancers. The text is specifically designed as a reference for investigators involved with clinical cancer immunotherapy. Therefore, it has a very limited audience. The individual reports